207 results for "The End of Medicine" between $2.00 and $75.00

Pages: 11, Digital, Elsevier

You get sick; you go to your doctor. Too bad. Because medicine isn't an industry, it's practically witchcraft. Despite the growth of big pharma, HMOs, and hospital chains, medicine remains the isolated work of individual doctors—and the system is going broke fast. So why is Andy Kessler—the man who told you outrageous stories of Wall Street analysts gone bad in Wall Street Meat and tales from inside a hedge fund in Running Money—poking around medicine for the next big wave of technology? It's because...

Because it's too expensive--for now. But Silicon Valley has turned computing, telecom, finance, music, and media upside down by taking expensive new technologies and making them ridiculously cheap. So why not the $1.8 trillion health care business, where the easiest way to save money is to stop folks from getting sick in the first place?

The Jewish story is an extraordinary one: of a 'chosen race' but a 'difficult people', living in all countries but until recently without one to call its own. Over the last one hundred years and across the world, Jews have been subjects and citizens, refugees and victims, as well as making enormous contributions to business, medicine, science, culture and political thought. The achievements of individual Jews in the 20th century are well known - Einstein and Kafka alone epitomize science and literature...

Pages: 330, Edition: 1, Hardcover, Yale University Press

The "End Of Medicine" by Kaare Bursell describes the process whereby all illnesses arise in the human individual. It details the illness process in terms of macrobiotic theory and anthroposophical concepts. The book also describes how this process can be self-diagnosed by any individual, how to treat the process so illness can be reversed and the individual heal him or herself. Kaare has been using the methods described in the book for over 30 years and has counseled thousands of...

Theophrastus von Hohenheim (14931541), better known as Paracelsus, was a physician, natural magician, radical activist of the early Reformation, and commentator on the social and religious issues of his day. This elegantly written book is the defining account of the man known as "Paracelsus the Great." Drawing on the whole range of relevant manuscript and printed sources, Charles Webster considers Paracelsus's life and works, explores his advocacy for total reform of the clerical, legal, and medical...

J effrey S. Bland , Metagenics' Chief Science Officer, and President of Metaproteomics, has been an internationally recognized leader in the nutritional medicine field for over 25 years. Headquartered in Gig Harbor,WA, Dr. Bland founded HealthComm International, Inc. in 1985, and served as its Chief Executive Officer until the merger with its strategic partner, Metagenics, in 2000. As the principal visionary of HealthComm, Dr. Bland had already distinguished the company as a leader in the development...

8vo. xvi, 125, [3] pp. An address delivered at the St. Louis Congress in 1904. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Manuscript inscription on front paste-down: "From Sydney, Christmas 1909". $100.00

* The bibliography includes material from the fields of anthropology, hospice, and palliative medicine and music therapy. * A comprehensive index. * Utilizes extended interviews with practitioners who reflect on the transformative power of music at the end of life. * Provides a creative and compelling vision of end-of-life care to physicians, nurses, medical students, chaplains, social workers, and patients facing a terminal illness along with their loved ones. * Includes moving, deeply personal...

David B. Agus, MD , is a professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California and heads U.S.C.’s Westside Cancer Center and the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. He is one of the world’s leading cancer doctors, and the co-founder of two pioneering personalized medicine companies, Navigenics and Applied Proteomics. In addition to his commitment to caring for patients while developing new approaches for personalized healthcare, Dr. Agus also chairs the Global Agenda Council...

Seeks to restore the pivotal role of the patient's own story in the healing process - Shows how conventional medicine tends to ignore the account of the patient - Presents case histories where disease is addressed and healed through the narrative process - Proposes a reinvention of medicine to include the indigenous healing methods that for thousands of years have drawn their effectiveness from telling and listening Modern medicine, with its high-tech and managed-care approach, has eliminated much...

David B. Agus, MD , is a professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California and heads U.S.C.’s Westside Cancer Center and the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. He is one of the world’s leading cancer doctors, and the co-founder of two pioneering personalized medicine companies, Navigenics and Applied Proteomics. In addition to his commitment to caring for patients while developing new approaches for personalized healthcare, Dr. Agus also chairs the Global Agenda Council...

An internationally renowned palliative care physician offers sensitive guidance, solace, and helpful strategies for people living with a terminal illness and their caregiversFacing death results in more fear and anxiety than any other human experience. Though much has been done to address the physical pain suffered by those with a terminal illness, Western medicine has been slow to understand and alleviate the psychological and spiritual distress that comes with the knowledge of death. more >>